Nel-Boy Bagels in Great Kills was the focal point a prescription drug sweep last summer. Its owner, Syed Rashid, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance.Staten Island Advance/Jillian Jorgensen

Syed Rashid, 51, of Annadale, pleaded guilty Friday in state Supreme Court, St. George, to fourth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, stemming from a Nov. 23 bust in Eltingville. It was the top count against him.

The incident occurred on Brandis Avenue.

According to court documents, Rashid was sitting in the front passenger seat of a parked 2005 Toyota Camry at about 7:30 p.m.

Officers observed Rashid hand a man who approached the car something in exchange for an undisclosed amount of cash, court papers said. The item turned out to be six pills of Suboxone, a drug used to treat opioid dependence, said police.

Cops also found one Suboxone pill on the Camry's center console, court documents state.

At the time of his arrest, Rashid was free on $50,000 bond, and awaiting sentencing in the Nel-Boy case.

Nel-Boy Bagels captured headlines in August 2011 as the centerpiece of a prescription drug sweep that netted more than 3,000 pills, along with cocaine, heroin and marijuana, said authorities.

Rashid, the owner of the small deli on Amboy Road near Nelson Avenue, was among the 25 loosely connected suspects arrested across the borough's East and South shores.

Officials said the deli had a bustling drug trade, hawking pills at $20 a pop.

A law enforcement source said Nel-Boy was packed full of customers in the middle of the night when police raided it. In the back room, cops found a "drug den," the source said, which included 100 glassine bags of heroin and 30 syringes.

Authorities were tipped off to the Nel-Boy operation through the South Shore Merchants Association.

Under his agreement, Rashid will be sentenced to six years in prison on that case, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. He'll be sentenced to five years for the Nov. 23 arrest and latest guilty plea. The sentences, to be imposed on Oct. 10, will run concurrently, the spokesman said.

"Not once, but twice was the defendant busted for selling illegal drugs. And twice he pleaded guilty to the top-count charges against him," said Donovan in a statement.

Said Rashid's lawyer, Patrick V. Parrotta,"We were pleased to work out a sentence that was sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to resolve both matters before the court."